Airline loses starlet's luggage! Well, it could happen. Derick Chetty turns to local labels for blockbuster looks and shows Canadian designers have outfits just right for any breakout star.

A starlet’s morning coffee run is yet another photo op. She’s already showed off her ladylike side but can also be cool and hip. She is still a fresh-faced young actress, after all. So she shows paparazzi she’s still in command by wearing leather and a tank from one of Canada’s hippest labels. On her: Skull safety pin tank by Greta Constantine Primer, $275, at Rac Boutique, 124 Cumberland St. Cardigan, $98, Roots. Leather pants by Object by George Antonopoulous for Danier, $449. Christian Louboutin shoes, Holt Renfrew. On him: T-shirt, Gap. Pants and leather jacket, Roots.

Imagine if you’re a budding actress whose star is on the rise and your break-through movie that is gathering buzz is premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival.

With the help of your Hollywood stylist, you’ve carefully selected and work-shopped your outfits for all your events and appearances at this important event attended by industry power-players and global media.

And you touch down in Toronto, feeling excited, fierce and ready to take this city by storm. This is your big moment! You can feel it! You’ve arrived!

But, um, the airline lost your luggage. All those borrowed fabulous designer frocks and accessories are lost.

Sure you can hit Toronto’s Mink Mile for a quick shopping spree, but you’re a starlet, darling, you don’t put down plastic for clothes.

So with the help of a local stylist you resort to wearing Canadian designers. You’ve decided to play this to your advantage. After all this is a Canadian film festival, you tell yourself. You remember how Kate Middleton played that Can-con card when she visited this past summer, trotting out a few Canadian outfits from her royal trousseau. Look how that won over an entire nation.

The Canadian outfits arrive at your hotel. They are fabulous. The paparazzi go into a frenzy at your every move. The tabloids can’t get enough pictures of you. We check the gossip pages to track your every move during the festival. And darling can we just say it? You never looked better.

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